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About Mt. Scott herald. (Lents, Multnomah Co., Or.) 1914-1923 | View Entire Issue (Dec. 12, 1918)
'------------------------------------------------------ ' OREGON NEWS IN BRIEF _____________________________ J Pacific coll<"K<> at Ni-wbvrg haa In During the biennium of 1817 and augurated u campaign fur a war-lltna I 1818 the state highway department ilnflnlvncy fund of 310.000 . haa constructed 45 2 miles of concrete Alexander M Holmes, a pionear pavement, 78.6 miles of brokeu stone widely known_throughout Marlon. Polk macadam. 32 2 miles of gravel macad and Yamhill «ountlaa, died at Hubllm- am and 134 5 miles of grading, accord Ity. aged 71. Ing to figures compiled for the bien Tlia Southam Oregon Poultry asso nial report of the department. ciation will hold Its annual show In If It Is found to be for the best in Medford on the 18th. 18th and 10th terests of enforcing tho factory In of December. spuctlon law tho state labor commis 1. II Van Winkle, assistant attorney sioner may establish a branch office general of Oregon, la confined In a In Portland and pay the expenses for hospital at Colorado Spring», Colo., It out of the factory Inspection fund. Attorney-General Brown lies advised with an Infected hand Despite adverse rooomtuendatlone of Labor Commlsalouer-elect Gftiin ' Durlug the last two years the re the clthens' advisory budget commit tee. the rose festival probably will bo ceipts of the state from all sources have amounted to 820,133,870. which resumed In Portland nest June. County officials from throughout Is more than 38.000.000 above the re Oregon are meeting In Portland thia ceipts of any previous biennium In week for the annual convention of the tho history of lbw stale, according to Association of County Judges and figures being complied for the bien nial report of Htate Treasurer Kay Commissioners Irrigation and drainage of 83.340 An emergency hospital has been op cued at Adams with the co-operation acres of land east of Eugene Is con of the Adams branch of the Umatilla templated by the Bonham Falls Irri county lied Cross to care for Hpanlsb gation company, of Han Francisco, which baa completed Its filing for Influensa cases. W. II. Ayer, for It months federal using waters of the McKenxIe river. food administrator for Oregon, has re An estimated coat of 81,235,000 Is signed his office and named W K placed on the proposed development Newell, a , latant food administrator, work. to act In hie stead. The Oregon Horticultural society Prank V I 'edro, wealthy sheepman closed Its meeting at Roseburg after of the Hutter creek country, near electing officers and deciding to hold Echo, killed himself at hie home In nest year’s session at Astoria The Pendleton by swallowing a large quan officers sleeted were: Benjamin 8 tity of strychnine Woraley, of Astoria, president; J. O Up to the baglnnlug of th<*wcek the Holt, Eugene, vice president; C D. death toll In Portland from Influence Minton. Portland, secretary; Charles totaled SOI since the epidemic started L. McNary. Halem, trustee. In October. The total number of cases Baker county Is proud of Its record reported was 880». on the war stamp drive. It having al A large barn on the Jess Traver ready exceeded Its quota of 3400.000 farm, northwest of Forest Grove, was by 880.000 All Indications point to burned, the fire consuming 1000 tons the fact that the county will exci-ed of bay. all the farm machinery and Its quota by 8100.000 before January 1. other valuable property. Baker county haa the honor of being To bring attention to Pendleton as the first county In the state to have an Ideal place to spend the winter and Its quota paid a month ahead of time to make an all-year home la the pur with a large oversubscription. pose of a campaign just launched by At the Instance of lumbermen In tne Pendleton Commercial aaaociatlon. eastern Oregon. Representative Sin The general strike threatened for nott haa aaked the railroad admlnia- Monday, on behalf of Thomas Mooney, tratlon to restore the privilege of ship was abandoned so far as Portland was ping pins lumber in closed freight concerned, when the Central Labor care. Owing to the scarcity of boxcars council adopted a resolution to this ' for shipping perishable commodities. • effect tbs regulations have required use of Commercial power rates of tho1 open oars for lumber, but It Is alleged Portland Railway, Light A Power that pine lumber la Injured by ship company and the Northwester» Elec- | ment In the open trie company, of Portlaud, are In- ’ Twenty-nine cities and towns in creased In ordure Issued by the public Oregon each have a bank deposit of service commission 81.000.000 or more, and the aggregate After a search extending throughout Is 8192,218.562.51. a statement Issued th« entire United Stab» since last by the stats banking department August. Mrs Ethal M. Scott, wanted shows. The deposits In the city of In Eugune tor forgery of ohocks and Portland total 8125.884.709 85, and af postal money orders, was arrested In j tor Portland comes Halem with 86.920,- Hau Bernardino, Cal. 548.88. Pendleton Is third with 86.559.- The emergency board met Monday 812.42, and Astoria fourth with 86.354.- at the request of Governor Withy- 862.38 The banking Institutions In combo, to consider an application for the 28 cities and towns total 102 h deficiency appropriation of *8000 tor There haa been eliminated from the the public service commission to In ! Deschutes national forest In west cen vestigate telephone rates tral Oregon, 4780 acres of land, all sur With ouly 8000 motor vehicle li veyed and a small portion reported to cense applications reoelved to date out ■ be agricultural, subject to entry only of tho 83.317 registered last year, Sec j under the homestead laws requiring retary Olcott warns car owners to get residence, at and after 9 o’clock a m. their applications la at onoe to avoid January IS, and to settlement and trouble after the' first of tho year. other disposition on and after January A oonvent ion of tho Stat« Federation 22. 1819, at Iho United States land of of Labor will bo held lu Salem on fices at Lakeview and The Dalles. The January 8 The convention was sched land li in scattered small tracts. uled to be held at Bend In October, Four fatal accidents are included In but the prevalence of Influeusa there the 541 accident reports received last i made It necessary to postpone the ses week by the state Industrial accident | sion. oommLslon. In addition the commie Cyrus llnmlln Walker, of Albany, slon received the report that Nelson oldest living white man born west of Kendall, who was Injured May 18 at the Rocky mountains, reached the 80th Dee, while employed aX lumbering, year of hie life Saturday. Mr. Walker died November 24. The fatal accidents was born December 7, 1838. at the old reported were: Earl Randall, Bandon, Whitman mission, near Walla Walla. stevedoring; G. W. Mackey, Astoria, Wash. shipbuilding; C. Ellis, Kuappa, log- | Formal protest against class freight glng; Fred Boatner, Mist, logging. rates proposed under the Chambers- Anglers', hunters' and combination Prouty acalo for railroads of the coun licenses for 1919 aro being mailed from try, has been made to Interstate Com the Portland office of the state fish merce Commissioner Alt oh Ison by and game commission to the 26 county Chairman Miller of tho public service clerks of the btate and to approxl oommission. mately 130 others points of distribu Warden Stevens, of the state peni tion. Paper conservation haa resulted tentiary. baa appointed John C. Talley In the commission reducing the usual deputy warden, supplementing Charles number of licenses by almost 20,000 Burns, who will become turnkey to The rollowing numbers have been Is succeed L. C. Brotherton, temporarily sued this year and are being distribu relieved. Mr Talley has been deputy ted: Sixty thousand anglers' licensee. warden at McNeill's Island federal 46,000 hunters' licenses. 20,000 com prison. bination licenses, 100,000 nonresident The University of Oregon at Eugene licenses and 2500 free licenses for vet will conduct examinations on January ' erans of the Civil war and pioneers 17 for young men who have the neces- who came to Oregon prior to 1860. sary qualifications for recommenda Results of the official count, at the tion to the United States naval acad last general election show that Gov emy at Annapolis, following a request J ernor Wlthycombe has five new po received from Congressman W. C. ! litical soalps hanging to his belt in Hawley. the shape of records for Oregon. He One of the biggest hauls of bootleg Is the first man to be nominated three whiskey ever captured In Clackama« times for the office of governor. He county was sslsed by 8hertff Wilson was elected four years ago by the and Deputy Sheriff Joiner, when two largest majority over given a candi Seattle men driving n large auto oar- date (or governor. He was nominated rylng a Washington license attempted last May by tho largest plurality ever to get through the county with about accorded a nominee tor that office. He 800 quarts of liquor. was elected by the largest majority Professor G. R. Hyslop, of Oregon ever given to a candidate tor governor Agricultural college, will conduct a oleoted fbr bls second term. He was three days' grain grading school at the first republican governor In the Dufur December 11, 13 and 14. under history of tho state to sucoeed himself. the auspices of Wasco county farm It must have been Adam who discov bureau. Oregon Agricultural college and the United States department of ered that It was much more pleasant to talk than to hoe the crops. '—“culture uo-uuoratlua. WILL YOU BE WEARING YOUR RED CROSS BUTTON WHEN THE BOYS COME HOME? PROFESSIONAL CARDS. IVY M. KINNEY Piano Instructor - VJHE-N ALL You NEED T o J oin IhE RED CROSS I 3 ” A HEART AND A DOLLAR” AND You can wear T he button ALOHG WITH T he R est OP __ T he crowd - - O h - h - h - BOY* <* AlNT IT A C r r R RAK1D w AMD GlOR -R-RIOOS FBELlM? ■rnw'ior 151 Fourth Htreet. Ree 80th Avenue, 8. E. Tel. Main 122 , I fa 0 0 0 0 0 u- ;/ o r ~T--------- n <* u a a •' ? V f* 5««1, 02nd Street Tabor 4754 DR. C. S. OGSBURY DENTISTRY urm, <» rb 0<> n labor IM« Dr. Wm. Rees Office and Residence. M m K 50th Hi. PORTLAND ORE may have noticed that Y OU optometrists talk mere abou “E yes * and “E yesight ” and “S ervice ” than they do about glasses. A This beeanse} ¡optometrists have something more ^important 'than glaeees to talk about. <Sb Any optical pla.-v.js,supposed to have eyeglasses and notJxarpete or furniture.. Optometrists naturally attach more importance to what you want when yonr eyes troubieiyou—which is com fort and satisfaction and quality and service. dib That's what you get from compe tent optometrists. ;< ¡lasers are the tools, and the Irameeami the mount ings. the mechanical contrivances, which properly and scientifically handled, bring comfort and satisfac tion. Tlie. Optical Shop ILUH CIBO-JB. PRATT OPTOMETRIST 326 Alder Street PORTLAND. OREGON By courtesy of Clare Briggs, New York Tribuna. KEEPING HOME FIRES BURNING UNTIL THE SOLDIER RETURNS The Williams Realty Co. Solicits your Property for Sale The Red Cross has for year» been I Living Is more difficult for every one | children are necessary the nome Serv We have the Buyers, you associated with hospitals, doctors, sol In war times, and the mothers are lone-i ice is ready to assist, to secure proper have the Property diers, sailors, battles, disasters; but It ily and discouraged, and this brings care for the children needing it and to hardship on the heads of the little ease the mind of the mother. is only within the last few months COME AND SEE US that those who do not come under children. Sometimes the wife and mother Is worrying over financial prob- any of these classes have come to real Milk for Sick Babies. | lema. and here the Home Service bu ise the Importance of the assistance reau Is always helpful, for It tactfully Everywhere In the war tone there rendered by the Red Cross. assists her In properly managing her are sick babies and babies needing Soldiers and sailors must be encour affaire, in planning her Income and, milk. The American Red Cross is es 8206 Woodstock Avenue aged to “carry on." Their morale of course, seeing that she Is receiving tablishing milk stations, and the babies Tabor 4934 must be upheld. The sailor or soldier sufficient allotment, and this regularly, of Italian soldiers are beginning to who Is worrying about the welfare of and then If It becomes necessary the thrive already under the competent his family Is not able to put his mind Red Cross Is always ready to supple care of the nurses, some of whom were on the business before him. For this ment the income. Where medical care Infant Welfare nurses In our own reason the Home Service Section of or. operations for the welfare of the country before going overseas. At the American Red Cross hns been or ganised, and to the folks at home It means neighborliness, counsel and aid —the nation's assurance to the enlist ed man that his family shall suffer for 8. C. SMITH no essential thing that Is within Its power to give. LIGHT MILL & CABINET WORK In practically every large city of the Screens, Sash, Windows, Doors United States there Is already a class for training the workers of the Home By JEANNE JUDSON. and Picture Framing Service section, so that they may be able to efficiently deal with the very ^Residence Phone: Tabor 4602 real problems that are before them. Frightened and pitiful, they walk apart, Shop Phone: Tabdt 7576 It is not the policy of the section to Through the familiar village street, grown strange, 4633 67th Street S. E. force upon families the aid of the Red Hand clasped in hand, they hear weird echoes start Cross nor to burden them with Inter From ruined homes. Fear dumbs each small, child heart. ference. No family should be ap proached unless some member of the family or some person capable of No tears rain down like dew to ease their woe; speaking for them has asked for the Horror has dried the wells from which they sprang, service. Becnusc It Is the desire of Like wee crusaders of the long ago, Still Moving ■ ■ ■ the Committee on Civilian Relief, un Their phantom banners in the breezes blow. der whose direction this work comes, to keep the service of the bureau If one should call out "Follow!” they would run. strictly confidential, the wearing of Grime of the highway on their tiny feet, any uniform by the Home Service workers has been discouraged. They Heedless alil^e of dust and blazing sun, The One-Way-Charge Company. cnll simply as friends and try to call Forget, as dreams, the horrors that were done. Immediately when requested. See Us For. . . In no Instance la a visitor permit None calls; weary they rest within the shade, ted to pry Into the secrets of the fanv The ruined church, where once they learned to pray, WOOD AND COAL lly. Help Is always ready, and the cnll Long years before the war had come, and laid usually comes from the man In the Tab. 1424 Dfil 8222 "Foster Rd Their homes in ruins, made their hearts afraid. service himself. Through tho work ers In the camp or at the front he learns that his family may bo assisted Before the Holy Mother low they bow, and If he does not bear regularly or Perhaps she hears and soon will bring them aid. encouragingly he Is quite apt to talk It must be she whose voice is calling now, , ... over with the Red Cross man or wo For see the cross is shining on her browl man the affairs of his home when he PRACTICAL HAIRCUTS learns of the friendly Interest, nnd The light around her head, a nimbus gleams, VELVET SHAVES thus send local workers to his family A Red Cross worker, not from Heaven, they know. The school teachers also aro often the CHILDREN BARBERING Informants, for they know through the Yet Mary heard and sent her here it seems, A SPECIALTY children of the needs at homo and are To lead them home to shelter and to dreams. glad to see the family’s problems See C hkhtxr A G korok solved. Williams Realty Co. KERN PARK CABINET SHOP Children of the Crusade ROSE CITY VAN »